a. (1) The determinations of the administrative law judges and the decisions of the tribunal sitting en banc shall be in writing. Each determination or decision, with the exception of those rendered pursuant to the small claims procedure, shall contain findings of fact and conclusions of law. A final decision of the tribunal may (i) grant in whole or in part the relief sought by the petitioner and/or the commissioner of finance, or (ii) dismiss the petition or request for counter-relief either on the merits or with leave to renew.
(2) An administrative law judge shall render a determination after a hearing, within six months after submission of briefs subsequent to completion of such a hearing or, if such briefs are not submitted, then within six months after completion of such a hearing. Such six month period may be extended by the administrative law judge, for good cause shown, to no more than three additional months. If the administrative law judge fails to render a determination within such six month period (or such period as extended pursuant to this subdivision), the petitioner for such hearing or the commissioner of finance, or both, may institute a proceeding under article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules to compel the issuance of such determination.
(3) A decision of the tribunal sitting en banc shall be issued within six months from the date of the request to the tribunal for en banc review of an administrative law judge's determination, except that where oral argument is granted or written arguments are submitted such six month period will commence to run on the date that such oral argument was concluded or written argument received by the tribunal, whichever was later.
b. Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions d and e of section one hundred sixty-nine of the charter, each decision of the tribunal, shall finally and irrevocably decide all the issues raised in the proceedings before it, unless the petitioner who commenced the proceeding seeks judicial review of any such decision in the manner provided in article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules within four months after the giving of the notice of such decision.
c. A decision of the tribunal shall be deemed to have been rendered on the postmarked date on the decision sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the address most recently provided to the tribunal by each of the parties to the proceeding.
d. The tribunal shall not participate in proceedings for judicial review of its decisions. The record to be reviewed in such proceedings for judicial review shall include but not be limited to the notice of the commissioner of finance which was the subject of the petition filed with the tribunal, the determination of the administrative law judge, the decision of the tribunal, the stenographic transcript of the hearing before the administrative law judge and any exhibit or document admitted into evidence at any proceeding before the administrative law judge or the tribunal.